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The Hospital de San Juan de Dios of Manila was previously known as the Hospital de la Misericordia, taking its name from the Brotherhood of the Misericordia that founded it in 1596. The initial objective of the Hospital was to provide medical treatment to slaves and Filipino servants of the
Growing up in a simple household and an underprivileged community in Masbate, I saw first-hand the difficulty of getting healthcare due to limited financial resources. With this in mind, I grew up wanting to help my community by becoming a doctor. When I graduated from college I was determined to
Drawn by his interest in exercise and neuro-musculoskeletal function, he pursued training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ( PM&R ) at Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital, becoming chief resident in 1972 and board certified in 1974. Fortuitously, Robert Darling MD, former director of Harvard Fatigue Laboratory ( exercise physiology ) was chairman.
The life cycle of PPEs are limited from donning to doffing, the events in between is life changing and maybe even bigger than life itself. Of course, without the PPEs, it is tantamount to living a life dangerously because he or she is exposed to all elements without protection.
The study of colonialism and medicine has been, by far, one of the most stimulating and provocative areas of investigation in Philippine medical historiography. Much is owed to the high quality work of three scholars in particular – Ken de Bevoise, Reynaldo Ileto and Warwick Anderson. Concerned with the late
Who would have thought that an ordinary person, born and raised from a small home, will be a doctor someday? Gratitude is an understatement for what I feel from all the support that led me to who I am today. I still can’t believe that this is all happening. As
Now, I am in my last year in Medicine. Things have not been getting easier since then. Every day is a struggle, but each day is also an accomplishment. It doesn’t feel like it was a long time since I just started as a medical student. But I still feel
The avid interest in ophthalmology stems of course, from the abiding interest of scholars in the Philippines’ foremost national hero, Jose Rizal, the country’s most famous ophthalmologist. Novelist, patriot, and polyglot, Rizal was keenly interested in medicine and science as disciplines that, in his view, crucially offered the key to
Why then, do we, Dominicans, have a school of Medicine and a Hospital here in the Philippines? The University Historian, Fr. Fidel Villarroel writes: “When in 1645, the initial Colegio de Santo Tomas (founded in 1611) was raised to the status of “university” by Pope Innocent X (Bull In Supereminenti),
The study of the history in the Philippines has undergone changes since the publication of the path breaking work, “A Short History of Medicine in the Philippines during the Spanish Regime, 1565-1898”, by the physician Jose Bantug in 1953. Filipino, Anglo-American, as well as European historians interested in the history
